With the United States “setting the Artemis strategy, we really made the moon a critical part of the strategy, and so by doing that, I think the whole world listened,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, former head of the NASA science mission directorate. “What you are seeing is really the lunar environment becoming a destination and a national imperative for many countries. I am not surprised there has been such an interest.” Over the next decade, NASA has estimated that human activity on and near the moon “will be equal to or exceed all that has occurred in this region since the...